Re: glib: processing events in multiple threads

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On 30 April 2013 12:26, richard boaz <ivor.boaz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> [...]
>> I've heard from quite a few people in particular in the GNOME camp who
>> believe that everything should be asynchronous and that multithreading
>> is evil.
>
> i don't know who these GNOME people are (very short?), but going with
> "multi-threading is evil" is an unbelievable statement: i'm gobsmacked.

I think they mean "multithreaded GUIs are evil", which is surely
correct. Keep the GUI as a single-threaded async thing, it's much,
much simpler and safer.

Multithreaded media libraries and so on are very good idea (as you say).

John
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